Psychoanalysis and Colonialism
by
Ranjana Khanna, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2003
Sigmund Freud infamously referred to women's sexuality as a “dark continent” for psychoanalysis, drawing on colonial explorer Henry Morton Stanley’s use of the same phrase to refer to Africa. While the problematic universalism of psychoanalysis led theorists to reject its relevance for postcolonial...